What "tells" have you noticed for AI-generated text (i.e., typical words/phrases, or other patterns indicative of GenAI)?

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Chief Product Officer7 days ago

In AI outreach on behalf of direct sales or business development, or even recruiters, it is very clear it is AI-generated when the context is way off - referencing old company associations or completely misunderstanding my role and therefore my interests. There is also over emphasis to "connect emotionally" on something random. Often the text includes hallucinations. The quality is just not there. 

VP of IT in Transportation7 days ago

+1 on everything mentioned already. My additional take is when the headers or titles of a paragraph are filled with each word starting with a capital letter.

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Director of Product Management8 days ago

Like many have stated, the excessive use of em dashes is definitely the most obvious tell.  On social media posts, I also feel like these are obvious:
 - a list of 3 items with emojis at the beginning
- buzzwordy closing statements (e.g. after all, you want clarity, not chaos)
- never more than 2 sentences together without a space

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Program Director, Intelligent Automation + Entrepreneur in Healthcare and Biotech8 days ago

The Chatgpt dash! = The em dash

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Director of Engineering8 days ago

The misuse of this character —

Before AI there was no indication of anyone using it. Now every text that I read that has it, indicates me that it was generated by AI

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